Oh, boy.
You know, this whole thing happening with Elon Musk
and Twitter reminds me of, I think it was Mike Tyson
who had that line where he said,
"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face."
[audience laughs]
Because now, it feels like Elon Musk
is just like scrambling, making it up as he goes along,
which I get, which I get.
You've spent $44 billion for a company
that most people say shouldn't be more than worth
like 20 something billion.
[audience laughs]
You're gonna scramble, you know?
And he's trying everything.
What's amazing to me is like,
what's happening with Elon Musk is a wonderful microcosm
to show you how much, or how quickly people will abandon
what they say is a principle
when things aren't going their way, you know?
So one of the first things Elon said when he took over
was like, "Comedy is now legal on Twitter."
And he was like, "It's time for free speech,
time for comedy,
time for people to actually have fun on Twitter again!"
And then what people started doing was,
they started changing their names to Elon Musk.
[audience laughs]
Right?
So people changed their Twitter handles to Elon Musk.
Then they just started tweeting things
as if they were Elon Musk.
They were like, "I'm such a terrible person.
My wife left me."
Just random, random shit, right?
And then Twitter just banned all of their accounts.
They're like, "Suspended, suspended."
And then he was like, "No parodying of people,
unless you say it's a parody."
It's like what? So it's not funny now?
[audience laughing]
It's not funny.
And this is the thing that people never seem to understand,
is everybody who is pro free speech
is not pro all speech.
What they're pro is the speech that they wish to use
that might hurt to offend other people.
[audience applauds]
And then, 'Cause you're like what's wrong, Elon?
People are just messing around with their handles.
Like, "No, they're impersonating me."
And it's like, why is that a bad thing?
"Because this could cause harm and panic."
Oh, it could cause harm and panic?
So you're saying somebody just saying something
could cause harm?
"Well, not in the way you're saying it."
It's like, yeah, man, everyone thinks jokes are funny
until the joke is about them.
That's the thing I've learned, right?
And now, he's there and all of it.
Like, "Oh the company we're gonna do it
like we don't care."
He's like, "That's why I'm buying it
because then, you don't have to worry about the advertisers.
We're gonna this thing."
And then the advertisers are like,
"All right, well we're leaving."
Wait!
[audience laughs]
Wait, I do care about the advertisers
[Trevor chuckles heartily]
Oh, man.
[audience clapping]
And then, it's funny how he does it.
Like, even his logic becomes illogical based
on his own logic.
So he goes, "We're gonna do verified for everybody.
You just have to pay $8."
Which undermines the purpose of verification.
Now I'm not for or against, I think,
to be honest with you, I would love
to live in a world where everyone on Twitter is verified.
I would like to know that we're talking to humans as opposed
to a bot or anything else.
So I don't mind if everyone is verified,
but what's funny is Elon going like, "No,
I'm making this for the people.
And so if the people pay $8, you all get to be verified."
And it's like, wait, so if people pay, they're verified?
Yeah.
Then someone was like, then how will you know
if this is now a government institution?
'Cause someone could just start an account of someone
who doesn't even have an account.
Then they could verify it.
Now technically, there's no other account
that they're parodying.
So are they the account?
And then when people go on, they're like, it is the account.
It's verified.
Do they act on that information?
And then, like the team at Twitter and Elon
were like, No, under the verification
will be some sort of verification
to say that they are.
[audience laughs]
And I'm like, oh, so now,
there's gonna be double verification.
What happened to power to the people?
Now, you are gonna be like,
"I'm double verified versus your one verified."
Then it's like, oh, all right, $16?
[Trevor chuckles]
Oh, man.
[upbeat music]